Easy Rawlins finds kinship with '60s hippies in `Cinnamon Kiss'.

Publication: South Florida Sun-Sentinel (via Knight-Ridder/Tribune News Service)

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COPYRIGHT 2005 South Florida Sun-Sentinal

Byline: Oline H. Cogdill

``Cinnamon Kiss'' by Walter Mosley; Little, Brown ($24.95)

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Easy Rawlins never expected his life to be, well, easy. But over time, the experiences of this sharecropper's son have brought him long stretches of promise, snippets of hope, signs of contentment along with changes to the black community. But through it all, Easy always has wondered if persistent racism, bigotry and ignorance could ruin it all.

But in ``Cinnamon Kiss,'' the initial threat doesn't come from the flawed nature of human beings. Easy's adopted...

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